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Frequently askedquestions

• How quickly can you embed an engineer into our team?

  From a signed contract, embedding usually takes three to five business days — long enough for credentials, repository access, environment setup, and a kickoff with your delivery lead. Compared to hiring full-time, where a typical European senior engineering search runs three to six months from posting to first commit, this is the main reason teams use augmentation: you get production output from someone vetted on real code, in days, against a workload you already understand.
• What seniority and skill profile do your engineers have?

  Every Bitnoise engineer on an augmentation engagement has at least six years of production experience and has shipped non-trivial systems end-to-end. They are full-stack-capable with a clear strong side (React/TypeScript or Node.js/NestJS, often both), AI-augmented in their daily workflow (Cursor, Claude Code), and comfortable owning ambiguous problems rather than waiting for tickets. We do not staff juniors on augmentation engagements — the whole point is that you absorb existing experience, not pay to train someone.
• How do contracts and notice periods work?

  Standard contracts run monthly with a thirty-day notice period on either side. We do not lock you into multi-quarter commitments, and we will not penalise you for ramping down ahead of schedule — most engagements unwind because the internal team grew or the initiative completed, both of which are good outcomes. For longer engagements (six months or more) we will sometimes agree to a discount in exchange for a longer notice window, but the default is intentionally short.
• Will the engineer report to us or to Bitnoise?

  Both. Day-to-day, the engineer follows your process: your standups, your sprint board, your pull-request review, your delivery lead. We do not insert a project manager between you and the work. Operationally and pastorally, the engineer still reports to Bitnoise — performance reviews, holiday cover, technical mentoring, salary, and the awkward conversations all happen on our side, so you get the upside of a full-time hire without the HR overhead.
• What time zones do you work in?

  All engineers are based in Central European Time (UTC+1 / UTC+2 with DST), which gives full overlap with EU teams and four to six hours of overlap with East Coast US teams during typical working hours. We work mostly remotely, with occasional travel to client offices for kickoffs or quarterly planning. For West Coast US clients we adjust the engineer's hours to keep a two- to three-hour synchronous window; we will not pretend a Polish engineer can hold full Pacific Time office hours sustainably.